Throneless

Though under Earth and throneless now I be, Yet, while I lived, all Earth was under me. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1953)

Fitting for the throneless exile is the atmosphere of pall, ❋ Various (N/A)

Peace to the throneless dead, hail to the ruler who comes, ❋ Charles Hamilton Musgrove (N/A)

Onward their throneless orbs that know no beams, -- ❋ Herman George Scheffauer (1902)

Germany, and Italy was transformed, the late emperor of France suddenly found himself a throneless fugitive, and the people of Paris passed through an experience unparalleled in the diversified history of that ancient city. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)

He, the hater of despotism, the abhorer of monarchy, the champion of the rights of man, the republican, accepting death to save the life of a deposed tyrant -- of a throneless king! ❋ Robert Green Ingersoll (1866)

This creature knelt before Chang-tsai, and cast forth from its mouth a slip of jade, on which was the inscription, -- 'The son of the essence of water shall succeed to the decaying Chau, and be a throneless king.' ❋ James Legge (1856)

As to the institutions of government, the laws and arrangements by which, as through a thousand channels, it should go forth to carry plenty and prosperity through the length and breadth of the country, it did not belong to Confucius, 'the throneless king,' to set them forth minutely. ❋ James Legge (1856)

For a while the throneless King gazed with mingled anger and astonishment at the angel, who met his glance with a look of compassion, and then said: "Who art thou, and why comest thou hither?" to which the ❋ Doris Hayman (1844)

Monkshaven was a name not unknown in the history of England, and traditions of its having been the landing-place of a throneless queen were current in the town. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

She was standing on the green outside her cottage, and received me with the sullen grandeur of a throneless queen. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

There's a longstanding tradition that sitting kings and queens treat their throneless colleagues as though they still reign. ❋ Brian Palmer (2011)

We often smile ourselves, and seek to make others smile, when we revert to the discussions, rival pretensions, projects, hopes, and fears which agitated this small knot of exiles, gathered round an impotent and throneless monarch. ❋ John William Cole (1830)

On the tablet was carved a prophecy: "The son of the essence of water shall soon succeed to the withering Chou, and be a throneless king"; which meant that her baby would grow up to become wise and valued leader, even though he would never hold political power. ❋ Unknown (2009)